Doctors are one of the first people a person freed from captivity encounters. And it is they who largely determine whether a sense of security will emerge, whether there will be a space in which one can breathe freely again, and whether a person will feel that they are not an object without rights and choices, but a person who was truly awaited.

In the Recommendations for medical personnel in working with those released from captivity, we draw attention to 10 aspects without which recovery is impossible.

The author of RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MEDICAL PERSONNEL IN WORKING WITH RELEASED CAPTIVES is Olena SEK, a military psychologist, expert and member of the reintegration group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, SERE psychologist.

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